Chapter 13: More Babies

James, Sirius, and Remus walked into the Gryffindor Common room around seven that evening to find Hermione quizzing Ginny and Ron and Harry playing chess.

"How'd you guys get in?" Harry asked when he looked up and saw the three Marauders

"You're asking the Marauders?" Hermione asked with a laugh.

"We……James begged the Fat Lady." Sirius said.

"I did not!" James said.

"We wanted to tell you guys about the birth of Adam Richard Newton and that Professor Slughorn will be taking Sara's place." Remus said.

"Really?" Harry, Hermione, and Ginny asked excitedly

"You mean that guy who was a guest speaker the day of the attack?" Ron asked.

"He's okay. Not my favorite person, but…I can live with him." Harry said. "Better than Snape."

"ANYONE'S better than Snape." Ron told him.

"Malfoy?" Ginny suggested.

Ron was silent as he thought

"I'll get back to you on that." Ron said after a moment of thought.

"Slughorn was OUR Potions professor." Remus informed him. "Watch out. He plays favorites."

"Slytherins?" the kids groaned.

"Not all of them." James said before turning to Harry. "Your mother was one of his favorites."

"Really?"

"Yes. Charms and Potions…She was a genius when it came to those."

"You were good in Potions too." Remus told James.

"Shhh." James said. "I have a reputation to uphold. I declined my invite to the Slug Club."

"The Slug Club?" the kids repeated.

"A group of Slughorn's favorite students. I pranked him more than once. THAT stopped the invites."

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Easter break,

There was a HUGE Easter reunion at Potter Manor. The Potter had not only invited their closest friends, but the Woods, Oliver's girlfriend: Alicia, the Longbottoms, the Lovegoods (James had helped Mr. Lovegood from a bind during their fourth year) (A/N: by Lovegoods, I mean Mr. Lovegood and Luna), the Diggorys and Cedric's girlfriend, Cho, and of course, the Weasleys and Grangers.

Harry and Ginny were in a room making out when all of a sudden,

"AAAGGGHHHH!!!"

They quickly pulled out and saw James holding a six-month old Megan and Sirius was standing at the mirror that was over the mantle.

His hair was a bright orange.

Harry and Ginny started laughing.

"What's so funny?" Lily asked coming in.

When she noticed Sirius' hair, she started laughing.

"What did you do?" Spica asked her husband as she entered.

"I didn't do anything." Sirius told her. "James and I were talking and all of a sudden my hair turned bright orange."

"The only thing out of the ordinary was Megan starring at…oh." James said as he began to realize what was going on.

Megan had been starring at Sirius' hair the whole time. As she did, it had changed to orange.

By that time everyone was downstairs laughing.

"It had to be Megan." Ron said.

"My baby did her first bit of magic." Lily cooed as she took the baby from James.

"What is it with you Potters and changing my hair color?" Sirius asked.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"Your first bit of magic," James told him, "Was turning Sirius' hair gray."

"He freaked out. Badly." Remus laughed.

"I bet." Spica laughed.

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The rest of April and May past by quickly. Ginny felt she did extremely well on her O.W.Ls.

The gang found Slughorn to be a descent teacher they could live with. He wasn't their favorite, but he beat Snape any day. He was a lot more helpful. He was actually quite likable considering he had been Head of Slytherin in his day.

June came quickly for the kids.

"Why are you so edgy?" Ginny asked her boyfriend at breakfast.

"It's June." Harry told her. "I'm waiting for something to go wrong."

"Like?" Ron asked.

"I don't want to say. It might jinx it." Harry said

"Probably an Azkaban…" Hermione started.

"Shhh." Harry told her while covering her mouth.

Remus was watching the kids from the staff table. Even though he was no longer a werewolf, he had managed to keep the perks (like excellent hearing). He also discovered he was a wolf animagus. However, he wasn't going to tell the gang. They'd just give him reason to transform every full moon for old times sake. He was determined to never be any type of wolf during the full moon ever again. If they ever found out, he would just shorten the length of time he knew of the ability.

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In London,

"Sirius?" an eight-month-pregnant Spica asked becoming quiet pale

"Yes?" Sirius asked from the kitchen.

"My water just broke. The baby's coming."

CRASH

"There goes Mum's china." She sighed.

"You still have a month." He told her as he came into the living room.

"Tell this kid that." She said breathing heavily.

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A few hours later,

"It's a girl." Lily announced as Sirius gripped Spica's hand.

"The one we picked?" Sirius asked his tired wife.

"Does she look like she could pull off that name?" Spica asked.

Sirius walked over to his daughter.

"I think so." He said. "What do you think?"

Lily handed the tiny baby to him. Sirius brought the baby to his wife as Lily watched. Even though she would never publicly admit it, Lily trusted Sirius.

"Yes." Spica said. "Vega Elizabeth Black."

"James would like that." Lily said

Vega's middle name was in honor of Lily's late mother-in-law.

"Lily?" Spica asked. "Can I ask you a favor?"

"Anything."

She paused as she thought of the stuff Spica could come up with.

"Within reason." Lily added

"Would you be Vega's godmother?"

"I would be honored." Lily said looking at the little female version of Sirius.

"Do you think James would be the godfather?" Spica added.

"In a heartbeat." Lily and Sirius told her.

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The next day,

"Look!" Ginny said. "Hedwig has a letter."

The snowy owl flew down to her master and dropped an envelope in his hands. Harry opened it and started to read it. It was from his godfather.

"She's early." Harry said as he read.

He started laughing.

"What?" his friends asked.

"Who's early?" Hermione added.

"Hermione, have you every heard of the term "godbrother"?"

"No." She said.

"What term?" Remus asked as he walked up to the group.

"Godbrother." Harry told him.

"Sounds like a term Sirius made up." He told the teen. "Why?"

"Because that's what I am to Vega Elizabeth Black." Harry told him handing the letter to the DADA professor.

"What?" Remus asked as he read the letter.

"I'm going to have a word with that mutt." Remus said. "Telling you before me. I told him first about Mel."

Suddenly, an owl dropped a letter in his hands. Remus opened it up to find a similar letter from Sirius.

"I just got mine first." Harry told his professor.

TBC

Megan eyed each of the students. She had never seen so many people. Suddenly, four of the students caught her eyes. She smiled as she recognized one of them.

"What is it, Love?" James asked his daughter as she started to wriggle.

"Airwy" she said pointing at her brother.